Sahitya Academy Awards 2018: Complete List of Winners

Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Awards for 2018 in 24 languages. Seven books of poetry, six novels, six short stories, three of literary criticism and two of essays have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards, 2018.

Here is the complete list of Winners of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018:

S. N.

Winner

Language

For Collection of Poetry

1.

Sananta Tanti

Assamese

2.

Paresh Narendra Kamat

Konkani

3.

S Ramesan Nair

Malayalam

4.

Dr Rama Kant Shukla

Sanskrit

5.

Dr Mohanjit

Punjabi

6.

Dr Rajesh Kumar Vyas

Rajasthani

7.

Khiman U Mulani

Sindhi

For short stories

8.

Sanjib Chattopadhyay

Bengali

9.

Mushtaq Ahmed Mushtaq

Kashmiri

10.

Prof Bina Thakur

Maithili

For Novel

11.

Inderjeet Kesar

Dogri

12.

Anees Salim

English

13.

Chitra Mudgal

Hindi

14.

Shyam Besra

Santali

15.

S Ramakrishnan

Tamil

16.

Rahman Abbas

Urdu

17.

Short-story writer, Mushtaq Ahmad Mushtaq, bagged the Award for his collection of short stories “AAKH’’.

The awards will be presented at a roadshow function to be held on 29th January 2019 at New Delhi during the Festival of Letters to the organized by Sahitya Akademi. Yogendra Nath Sharma was awarded the Bhasha Salman for the North zone; G Venkatasubbiah for South zone; Gagendra Nath Das for the Eastern zone; and Shailaja Bapat for the Western zone.

Source- Press Information Bureau (PIB)

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“AAKH”, a collection of eighteen short stories, published in 2012 had earlier bagged the best book award in Kashmiri at the state level from State Academy of Art, Culture and Languages for the year 2014.

The Sahitya Akademi award is among the most prestigious literary honours bestowed on writers for their works across genres and languages.